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| content | "<p></p> <table style="width: 100%;"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="padding-top: 3%;"> <blockquote> <p>If we don’t want to suffer immensely in our lifetimes and we want future generations to be able to enjoy a healthy planet, we have to move quickly to change our sources of energy from fossil fuels to energy that doesn't produce CO2.</p> <p>If we don’t act, many locations where we previously prospered as humans, will be much less supportive of human life: changes in rainfall (both increases and decreases), increased extreme weather (both hot and cold), sea level rise, and biodiversity loss are just some of the impacts of global warming. We are already experiencing these effects, and even if we stop using fossil fuels, they are going to get more severe in our lifetimes. These impacts will cause changes in many social and economic systems are dependent on a stable climate.</p> <p>In climate science and communication, there are two main actions that humanity needs to take to address this urgent crises:</p> <ul> <li><strong>Climate mitigation</strong> -- remove carbon emissions from every part of the economy, as fast as possible in order to prevent further global heating.</li> <li><strong>Climate adaptation</strong> -- help every community in the world adapt to the warmer climate that we will be living in for the next (at least) several hundred to several thousand years, that is very different from the climate that allowed the human population to grow as it has now.</li> </ul> <p>As you can imagine, these actions meet resistance in political conversations. Climate mitigation and adaptation basically mean we have to “change everything”. The world we are living in is going to be changing very quickly. There might be a lot of people who are confused, hurt, and a lot of people with power and money created as part of our current system forced to change.</p> <p>If we succeed at changing the way the world emits carbon, some entrenched powers (such as the oil industry or countries dependent on oil) will lose a lot of economic power, and if we don’t succeed, billions of people, especially in the global south will end up losing their lives and livelihoods.</p> </blockquote> </td> <td style="width: 45%; padding-left: 30px; background-color: #71d1b3;"><br /><img height="100%" src="/static/Wikimedia_Brand_Guidelines_Update_2022_-_WikiSource.svg" alt="" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p></p> <p></p>" |